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Answer the following questions:

1. What is the Business Software Alliance (BSA)?Is a watchdog group dedicated to fighting software piracy, educating computer users about software copyrights and cyber-security, and advocating public policy for electronic commerce, international trade, intellectual property protection, export controls, and emerging technology issues.

2. What is custom-built software?Is software that is specially developed for some specific organization or other user. As such, it can be contrasted with the use of software packages developed for the mass market, such as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software, or existing free software.

3. Describe the reasons why an organization decides to purchase custom-built software:

No appropriate off-the-self software available: While the initial price may be low, you may find yourself constantly paying for upgrades. In addition to this, you have no control over the source code of the software. While purchasing off the shelf software may help you solve specific problems, you may sometimes find that it is not compatible with your goals.

Cost factors: Cost estimating relationship in which a cost is directly proportional to one independent variable, such as a certain percentage of the material consumed in producing a good

Control: the situation of being under the regulation, domination, or command of another.

Competitive advantage: the advantage that the firm has over its competitors, allowing it to generate greater sales or margins and/or retain more customers than its competition.

4. What is included with commercial software? Explain.a. User manual, documentation: A user guide or user's guide, also

commonly known as a manual, is a technical communication document intended to give assistance to people using a particular system.

b. Registration card: is a card that allows you to get register on your computer and different programs

c. Serial number/ product key: d. Warranty card:e. Copyright notice:

5. What is web-based software?Web-based software is software you use over the internet with a web browser. You don’t have to install any CDs, download any software, or

worry about upgrades. If you use an online bank or web-based email program like Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail then you’ve already used web-based software before.

6. Describe advantages and disadvantages of web-based applications. (at least 6)

Advantages: Web-based software is safer. When you use our web-based

software, your data is stored on secure, always-updated, backed-up daily enterprise-class servers in a state-of-the-art, highly-secure data center.

Everything together in one place. A key advantage to web-based software is that all your data is centralized and accessible over the web from any computer at any time. You can’t leave something on the wrong computer since everything is stored in one place on the web.

Web-Based Software Reduces Costs. Web-based software requires no initial capital investment to buy software for a number of individual desktops. There is no software to download or install on site

Disadvantages: It has the inclination to run slower than software that is stored on

an actual local hard drive and if the Web-based software server goes down it will prevent all its users from accessing the application.

A user would not be able to access the Web-based software without Internet access. One way to avoid not being able to access the software without Internet is to install Web-based software with offline capabilities.

The cost, initially it is low in cost. Eventually the monthly fees adds up to an overall higher cost.

Software trainingModern application software contains many features and be quite complex. Although GUIs help make many programs user-friendly, the features-richness of these programs nevertheless, be daunting, especially for inexperienced users.For this reason, it pays to be aware of the available possibilities concerning help and training:

a. Reading manualsb. Tutorial softwarec. Help menusd. Online text-based tutorialse. Online video-based tutorialsf. Trainersg. Experimentation

7. With which form of training are you already familiar?I am familiar with online video based tutorials because those help us to understand things better, with video tutorials we can learn to do a lot of things because they teach us step by step things so people can understand better and easy. People prefer a lot the video tutorials because they spend a lot of time on the internet so they can access rapidly to them and they can find tutorials for the things they need to do.

8. Identify advantages and disadvantages of the different forms of training?

Help menusAdvantages:

shortens learning curve reduces keystrokes structures decision-making permits use of dialogue-management tools

Disadvantages:

imposes danger of deep-nested menu hierarchies may slow frequent users consumes screen real estate requires rapid display rate

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